I've always had just enough success to buy me some more tour dates and another record.

If I had to choose my best day ever, my finest hour, my wildest dream come true, mine would be you.

God gave me you for the ups and downs and days of doubts.

You'll be my glass of wine I'll be your shot of whiskey

Where I live in Oklahoma, it's all ranchers. My friends are all cowboys and pretty rough guys. If I had a hot tub back there, I may as well have Richard Simmons come over and live with me.

To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show.

I want to stand for something, and it's probably going to be something that some people stand against.

One thing that you cant fake is chemistry.

Shoot, man, I love everybody! I don't have time to hate.

My life has been an open book, for better or for worse.

I like California but I'm dyed-in-the-wool Oklahoma. I see a deer in L.A., and everybody's standing around it taking pictures. Back home, that's the enemy!

But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.

The same faint song is heard in everything: "Behold yourself".

David looked at me, then, the regret plain on his face. No matter what I said, we both knew the hard truth. We do our best. We try. And usually, it makes no difference at all

I don't really like fairies.

Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.

Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. Does that seem paradoxical? Well, war is not afraid of paradoxes.

The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting.

I write songs to turn myself into something else. And then I become that, and I want to become something else.

[Money] is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.

The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.